Cohousing-L Mailing List: Committee Names & Roles

[Jack & Carolyn Salmon (2salmon]

I’m very interested in this.  A year and a half into living in Quimper Village, 
we have an adhoc team, reporting to the Coordinating Team, considering whether 
we would benefit by creating, sunsetting, re-arranging our team structure.  
This is what it looks like now:

Board of Directors:  all members whose names are on a unit title.  They do make 
significant decisions - examples: community agreements, budget, changes in the 
built community that might affect owners’ property values.  

Coordinating Team: made up of Team leaders from Functional Teams (in bold 
below), officers, Process team rep.  CT generally doesn’t make decisions other 
than whether a decision should be made by the Board of Directors or the 
originating team.   
        CT  has created some adhoc teams to address specific issues (such as: a 
member of 3 teams to develop a proposal for improved oven capacity in the CH 
kitchen or the team to design a memorial grove)  and then to disappear

Each team under a functional team has decision-making and management 
responsibility within it’s domain.  

Community Life 
Meals & Kitchen Management
Wellness & Emergency Preparedness:  Health & Safety, Cares & Concerns, 
Emergency Preparedness
Pets
Social & Events
Process & Governance
Negotiating Differences
Membership Development : marketing, new member orientation, sales assistance 

Facilities Management
Building & Grounds: repairs, building exterior maintenance, mowing 
Landscaping: landscape design and installation, Weed Warriors, Common House 
Landscaping
Community Garden (currently inactive)
Motorheads
Workshop
Bike Barn
Art Studio
Design Review
Chores

Finance & Legal
Budget
Records Retention

Common House 
Housekeeping
Guest Rooms
Art Selection



Carolyn Salmon